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Argonne National Laboratory, together with the U.S. Department of the Interior, are working together to help educate future tribal leaders on energy resource development and environmental evaluations by offering several hands-on learning opportunities such as Tribal Energy Internships and the Indian Education Renewable Energy Challenge.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, located at Argonne National Laboratory, has run over two billion processor-hours of computations at a mind-boggling speed of over 557 trillion calculations a second as it enables scientists and engineers to conduct cutting-edge research in just weeks or months rather than years.

A group of automotive researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and industry have shown that a fuel-injected racing car engine fueled by E-85, an ethanol-based fuel, outperforms the same engine with a carburetor and leaded racing fuel.

Led by engineers Michael Wang and Amgad Elgowainy, the Argonne team expanded and used the laboratory’s GREET model to assess which types of power plants are likely to satisfy the additional electrical demand that PHEVs will represent in different regions of the United States.

Jorge Alvarado was honored by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation, and Monica Regalbuto was named one of the 2010 Powerful Hispanics in Energy by the editors of Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology.